Product Line Manager, Bay Area)

Molex

Key Responsibilities

• Product strategy and roadmap: Develop and execute product-line strategy, annual plan, and roadmap using customer, market, technology, and financial insights.
• Customer and market insight: Learn how customers use burn-in sockets and H-Pin technology, identify unmet needs, monitor competitors, and translate findings into priorities.
• Commercial ownership: Support growth and profitability through pricing, margin review, forecasting, product positioning, and informed trade-off decisions.
• New product development: Partner with Engineering and customers to define requirements, assess opportunities, build business cases, establish target price and cost, and support product launches.
• Lifecycle management: Guide products from concept and launch through growth, maturity, and end of life, with thoughtful replacement planning.
• Go-to-market execution: Create clear value propositions, support sales tools and technical content, train commercial teams, and participate in customer meetings and industry events.
• Cross-functional leadership: Lead through influence across Sales, Engineering, Operations, Finance, Marketing, Quality, FAEs, and Customer Service.
• Pricing and systems: Help maintain accurate pricing, quoting, product, and customer information in tools such as Salesforce, ERP, and Excel.
• Continuous improvement: Identify ways to simplify work, improve customer experience, reduce cost, and strengthen product-team effectiveness.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Physics, Business, Marketing, or another related discipline; equivalent relevant experience will also be considered.
• Experience gained through employment, internships, co-op assignments, academic projects, research, technical sales, applications engineering, product management, pricing, marketing, or a related customer-facing role.
• Ability to interpret technical and commercial information and explain it clearly to different audiences.
• Experience using data to evaluate options, solve problems, or make recommendations.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint, with the ability to learn CRM, ERP, and product-management systems.
• Ability to travel up to 35% domestically and internationally.
• Integrity, compliance, and customer value at the center of decisions.
• Collaborative and willing to help, while also respectfully challenging ideas when better knowledge is available.
• Curious and comfortable learning technical products, applications, and markets.
• Ability to take ownership, manage priorities, and follow through on commitments.
• Ability to organize information, analyze data, and communicate a recommendation clearly.
• Comfortable working with people across functions, levels, cultures, and geographic locations.
• Drive and passion for the work, motivated by contribution.

Skills & Tech Stack

• Salesforce
• ERP (e.g., Glovia)
• Excel
• PowerPoint
• CRM systems
• Product-management systems
• Power BI
• Project-management tools
• 3D CAD viewers

Advantageous Experience

• Degree or experience in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Materials Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Physics, or a related technical field.
• Exposure to semiconductor manufacturing, test, reliability, connectors, interconnects, electronics, or another technical manufacturing environment.
• Experience with product management, product marketing, applications engineering, technical sales, pricing, financial analysis, or P&L drivers.
• Familiarity with burn-in or HTOL, test sockets, contact technologies, IC packaging, thermal management, or high-power devices.
• Demonstrated leadership through a student organization, project team, internship, co-op, volunteer role, or cross-functional business assignment.
• Additional language skills relevant to global markets.